Friday Squid Blogging: Jumbo Flying Squid in the South Pacific
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What happened
This collection of Schneier blog posts highlights several security- and privacy-relevant items from March 2026: Proton Mail provided subscriber/payment metadata to Swiss authorities which was passed to the FBI (user privacy/legal process issue); a researcher’s attempt to remote-control a DJI Romo vacuum resulted in controlling ~7,000 devices, illustrating large-scale insecure IoT and potential botnet risk; South Korea’s National Tax Service accidentally published a seized Ledger wallet’s mnemonic recovery phrase, enabling theft of ≈$4.4M; Meta’s new AI glasses raise serious privacy concerns (a
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